[IEEE-bhpjobs] Friday, December 2nd Visualization Friday Forum

[Walter Heger]

THIS TALK WILL TAKE PLACE IN ROOM 240 OF THE FRANKLIN CENTER.

	Visualization Friday Forum
Friday, December 2nd noon-1pm in room 240 Franklin Center
	Lunch will be served

Speaker: David Rose, Ambient Devices

Calm Technology: Designing information with manners

Wireless devices today require an enormous amount of a very scare
resourceùour attention. Their interfaces are inscrutable and we
continuously apologize for their lack of social etiquette with
interruptive ringing, beeping, and buzzing.  Ambient Devices, a spinoff
of the MIT Media Lab, is pioneering new way of looking at information
which leverages our peripheral senses. We see a future where impolite
PCs, PDAs and smart phones wonÆt be the way we access the Internet.
Instead we will populate our living and working spaces with dozens of
Ambient objects to keep us attuned to the information we care about
most.

Note: This is the final seminar this semester (unless I feel like
hosting another one).  Please notice the alternate
location.  If people want to congregate at D106 LSRC, I will be there
until 11:50 and will walk you all over to the Franklin center.
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The Visualization seminar series is a forum for faculty, staff and
students from across the university to share their research involving
the development and/or application of visualization methodologies.  Our
goal is to build an interdisciplinary community of visualization
experts
whose combined knowledge can facilitate research and promote
innovation.

The Friday Forum Fall 2005 Schedule is available at
http://vis.duke.edu/FridayForum/05Fall.html

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